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Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah from 1977 to 2019. Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican U.S. senator in history, overtaking Ted Stevens, until Chuck Grassley surpassed him in 2023.
Thus, in October 1996, Kennedy introduced a bill to provide health care coverage for children of the working poor, to be financed via a 75 cents a pack cigarette tax increase. [11] Kennedy brought Republican Senator Orrin Hatch onto the legislation as a co-sponsor. Kennedy and Hatch had worked together as an "odd couple" in the Senate before ...
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. When Kennedy died in August 2009, he was the second-most senior member of the Senate (after President pro tempore Robert Byrd of West Virginia) and the third longest-serving senator of all time, behind Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
The comments drew widespread criticism over the weekend as the passage of the Senate tax bill continued to outrage many.
Orrin G. Hatch, who became the longest-serving Republican senator in history as he represented Utah for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88. A conservative on most economic and social ...
The author of a new book on the complicated and consequential Kennedy and his life’s work on AIDS and marginalized communities, and how he always found a partner on the other side of the aisle.
[2] The Kennedy Institute is, along with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, a co-sponsor of The Senate Project, whose goal is, through hosting a series of Oxford-style debates between leading U.S. Senators, to reintroduce the culture of seeking common ground and bipartisan consensus that has been the essence of the ...
Hatch was a noted conservative and was influential in confirming numerous conservative federal judges, including Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991. [2] [3] However, Hatch also worked extensively with Senator Ted Kennedy, a liberal Democrat, on several pieces of bipartisan legislation, such as the Children's Health Insurance Program ...